[lbo-talk] Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89 (NY Times)

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Wed Aug 6 01:22:26 PDT 2008


Chriss wrote:


>A German totally unselfconsciously taking the moral high ground with regard
>to
barbarian Easterners, with respect to antisemitism no less. I love it. Note the
>sharp implicit dividing line between eastern antisemitism (a deep trait of the
barbarian peoples, because they're Them) and western antisemitism (an aberration, because they're Us).

I love it: No other argument, and so You will take the place of my birth. Your problem, not mine. I had not to wait for instrumental political correct comments out of thin air, to be accepted as somebody not only well aware of fascism in all the different forms - from Heidegger and Antonescu and the Narodowy Sily Zbrojny-ZJ to Himmler and Heydrich and all their today's followers - but arguing and working against.

Friends in Poland - the older ones fighting german occupation in the leftist underground - share my view and never ever were looking down on "A German". We worked together. Krystyna was acitve in socialist underground and stayed in the Pawiak - the warsaw gestapo-Prison - nearly a year, before taken to Ravensbrück in Sommer 44.

Friends from the former soviet union share the view too, and the older german comrades with 5 to 8 years imprinsonment in different concentration camps.

But of course none them has your moral authority, Chris.

Part of my time I spend guiding eastern european groups trough the exhibition on the place of former gestapo and SS headquater in Berlin. (http://www.topographie.de/en/index.htm)

I did n ot write anywhere about "babarian Easterners". And there is non "implicit difference" between in my post "eastern" and "western" antisemitism. I use "eastern antisemitism" only this way: in quotation marks, because I see "eastern" and "western" antisemistism as empty  generelizations. I wrote about facts. (You know: These ugly things you are not interested in.)

But there is an explicit difference in my post:


> It was in late 1941, before the massacre of the "Aktion
> Reinhard" began. Many of the far right in Poland did
> not appreciate the killing of the jews, some even opposed.
>Yes, in no other country there was such harsh legislation
> against all those, hiding and helping jews, like in occupied
> Poland.
--- To take it to a short summary: Stop making big words about things You have no idea about.

Sebastian

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